New Teacher Instructing with Digital Images

Image: Teaching with Digital Images (Bell, Bull)

Teaching with Digital Images: Objectives

• Formulate an opinion on the value of digital tools (focusing on images) in student learning
• Examine brain research on student learning
• Compare various image manipulating tools
• Recognize the value of copyright and fair use
• Be aware of the process of sending images to KUSD website and channel 20

Teaching with Digital Images: Definitions

• Definitions
• Image types

Teaching with Digital Images: Digital Natives. Are they a different kind of learner?

• Who are Digital Natives ?
• New York Times article "Your Brain on Computers " Can the Internet become addictive?
  • "The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored... These urges can inflict nicks and cuts on creativity and deep thought, interrupting work and family life"
  • Atlantic Wired article on reactions to the NY Times article: "Bloggers' agree: The Web is killing our focus "
• PBS Front Line program: "Digital_Nation - Life on the virtual frontier "
• PBS Digital Workshop: "21st Century Schools: Learning in the digital age "

Teaching with Digital Images: Using images in a lesson

Teaching with Digital Images: Copyright

• Learn more about copyright

Teaching with Digital Images: Other Resources

Channel 20 and KUSD Webpage:

• Checking student enrollment form data (ask office staff whether this information is in Zangle): make sure parents/guardians have not indicated that they don’t want a child’s image to be used.
• Submitting photos to Channel 20 & the KUSD web site:
• Do not publish student last names, but first name and last name initial are OK.
• Submitting photos: http://www.kusd.edu/forms/image_upload.html